Thomas Seward was born in Worcestershire and educated at Westminster and at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1731, M.A. 1734). He was rector of Llan-maes, Glamorgan (1733-40), tutored for the duke of Grafton, and rector of Eyam in Derbyshire (1740). He was a prebendary of Lichfield, and of Salisbury (1755) and resided in Lichfield with his famous daughter Anna Seward.
TEXT RECORDS:
1748Ode on a Lady's Illness after the Death of her Child.
PUBLICATIONS:
The conformity between Popery and paganism. Illustrated in several instances. 1746.
The folly, danger and wickedness of disaffection to the government: an assize sermon. 1750.
Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, ed. Seward and Sympson. 10 vols, 1750.
The late dreadful earthquakes no proof of God's particular wrath against the Portuguese: a sermon. 1756.
A charge to the clergy of the peculiars belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. 1775.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Westminster School
St. John's College Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
clergyman
tutor
poet
Dr. Erasmus Darwin
Samuel Johnson
Anna Seward
REFERENCE:
DNB; not NCBEL.
Dodsley, Collection of Poems (1748); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 60 (March 1790) 280-81; Anna Seward, in Letters (1811); John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58); William Prideaux Courtney, in Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its Contents and Contributors (1910); Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1922-27).
COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Seward:
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Seward:
1. | 1790 Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 60 (March 1790) 280-81. |
2. | 1910 William Prideaux Courtney, in Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its Contents and Contributors (1910) 128-29. |